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UNiTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH M. BECKER AND ALEXANDRE SAGGESE, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

BOOK-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 446,052, dated February 10, 1891.

Application filed August 6 1890. Serial No. 361,159. (No model.)

To all 1071.077@ t may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOSEPH M. BECKER and ALEXANDRE SAGGEsE, citizens of the United States, and residents of NewYork, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful `Improvements in Book-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in book-protectors; andthe invention consists of a book-protector made of paper, canvas, leather, or any other suitable material, having flaps provided with eyelets, through which eyelets laces or cords are drawn, by means of which the protector can be easily and quickly applied to the covers of a book, pamphlet, or magazine.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents an open book with our improved book-protector applied to the covers of the saine, and Fig. 2 is a blank of the book-protector. r

Similar letters ofl reference indicate corresponding parts.

A in the drawings represents a blank of paper, canvas, leather, or any other suitable material, having two incisions a a opposite each other and four incisions b b b b at its outer ends. By these incisions four flaps d d d cl and two flaps c c are formed, the flaps d being located between the incisions a and b A and the flaps c between the incisions b b, as

clearly shown in Fig. 2. It is not necessary that these incisions must have the forms shown in the drawings. Any incisions inthe places indicated by the reference-letters a and b will have the same result, as thereby the flaps d and e-are formed, which are not dis- .pensable .with my improved book-protector.

The .ilaps d and e are provided with eyeletsf, through which a ribbon, tape, or cord g is drawn, as clearly shown in the drawings.

Our book-protector is applied to the covers of a book, pamphlet, or magazine in the following way: The opened book Bis placed on the blank of the protector, so that the back of the book is in a line between the incisions a a. back of the book are then bent over the inside of the cover Band the ribbon or tape in the eyelets drawn tight and the ends of the .same knotted together, as shown in Fig. l. To the other cover of the back the iiaps d d and e are applied in the saine manner. The protector thus applied to a book or magazine cannot get loose and can only be removed by unknotting the ribbon or tape.

Instead of ribbons or tapes, elastic rubber bands may be drawn through the eyelets, so that by the bent-over flaps pockets are formed, into which the covers of the book are pushed.

It is evident that our book-protector can also be used as a portfolio, as the pockets which are formed by the flaps d and e may serve as receptacles for documents and other papers.

Our book-protectors are manufactured in various sizes, according to the sizes of the books. They are especially adapted for school-books, account-books, and magazines.

We are aware that book-protectors having flaps which in close the book-covers are old and Well known, and therefore we do notI claim such book-protectors, broadly.

That We claim as our invention is- A book-protector vconsisting of a blank of canvas, paper, or other suitable material having flaps d CZ and c, said flaps being provided with eyelets and adapted to be bent over to inclose a book-cover, in combination with ribbons or tapes passing through said eyelets and knotted together at their ends, substantially as set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 2d day of August, A. D. 1890.

JOSEPH M. BECKER.

f ALEXANDRE SAGGESE.

Witnesses:

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

CAREELL PAOLO.

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